Bar-knife.



No. 818,263. PATENTED APR. 17, 1906. W. H. KINGSLEY.

BAR KNIFE.

APPLIGATION FILED JUNE 6, 1905.

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IINITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

BAR-KNIFE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed June 6,1905. Serial No. 263,980.

Patented April 17, 1906.

T0 aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. KINGSLEY, a citizen of the United States,residing at San Francisco, in the county of San Francisco and State ofCalifornia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bar-.Knives, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improved barknife, such as is used inliquor-saloons for cutting strips of the rind of a lemon for makingfancy drinks known as cocktails. The object of the invention is toprovide a knife which will out these strips more easily, quickly, andwith greater uniformity than heretofore.

It is at present the practice with bar-tenders in saloons in preparing afancy drink of this character to cut a narrow slice of the. peel of thelemon, then to trim away the thin edges of the slice to make an evenstrip and then to curl the strip so cut and drop it into the drink. Itis difficult with an ordinary knife to cut this strip so that it willnot break in curling, as, if the strip be unusually thin or weak at anypoint, it will on curling break at such point. My present inventionenables such strips to be cut of substantially uniform thickness, sothat there is no dan er of breaking the strip on curling it and a soavoids the necessity of trimming away the edges of the slice of the peelin order to produce an even strip.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a front View of the knife.Figs. 2 and 3 are broken perspective views thereof. Fig. 4 is a sectionon the line 4 4 of Fig. 1.

Referring to the drawings, 1 represents the blade of the knife, and 2the handle thereof. Said blade, in addition to the ordinary cutting edge3, has a short cutting edge 4, formed on the back thereof, of sufficientlength to cut a strip of the rind of the lemon of the width generallycut in making fancy drinks. This edge 4 is formed flush with one side 5of the blade and is depressed or sunk from the opposite side 6 thereof,so that transverse shoulders 7 are formed at the ends of said cuttingedge where it connects with the back of the blade. These shoulders arealso formed with cutting edges, so that said short edge 4 and shoulders7 cut off from the skin .of the lemon a strip of uniform width and of athickness which is determined by the depth of said shoulders. Thus astrip is very easily out and requires no trimming at the edges.

WILLIAM H. KINGSLEY.

Witnesses:

FRANcIs M. WRIGHT, BESSIE GORFINKEL.

